Lectures on English Poetry: To the Time of MiltonWhittaker, 1837 - 118 pàgines |
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... wanting to give a proper tone and color to the picture of the period , and finish that bold sketch of which history is the grand outline . There are perhaps few branches of literature more calculated to supply part of this information ...
... wanting to give a proper tone and color to the picture of the period , and finish that bold sketch of which history is the grand outline . There are perhaps few branches of literature more calculated to supply part of this information ...
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... wanting , the entrance of Alfred into the Danish camp , disguised as a harper or gleeman , would shew the influence of poetry and the popularity of its professors . The Norman army that invaded England came accompanied by its minstrels ...
... wanting , the entrance of Alfred into the Danish camp , disguised as a harper or gleeman , would shew the influence of poetry and the popularity of its professors . The Norman army that invaded England came accompanied by its minstrels ...
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... wanting . The pilgrims are persons of different rank and station . There is the knighte , the millere , the reve , the coke , the sergeant of the lawe , the wif of Bathe , the frere ' wanton and merrie , ' the soumpnoure , the clerk of ...
... wanting . The pilgrims are persons of different rank and station . There is the knighte , the millere , the reve , the coke , the sergeant of the lawe , the wif of Bathe , the frere ' wanton and merrie , ' the soumpnoure , the clerk of ...
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... wanting in unity , proportion of detail , and in that masculine vigor and originality which distinguish the productions of Chaucer . Considering the times in which he lived , Gower was a man of great attainments and lively ...
... wanting in unity , proportion of detail , and in that masculine vigor and originality which distinguish the productions of Chaucer . Considering the times in which he lived , Gower was a man of great attainments and lively ...
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... wanting in power , yet free from that conceit which gives an air of affectation to the works of his friend , WYATT . Both were zealous imitators of the Italian writers , but Surrey had the better discrimi- nation and finer vein of ...
... wanting in power , yet free from that conceit which gives an air of affectation to the works of his friend , WYATT . Both were zealous imitators of the Italian writers , but Surrey had the better discrimi- nation and finer vein of ...
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